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It's my understanding that you can only feel compersion for/about a partner and maybe a metamour. You wouldn't say, if you had a child who went on a great date, say you had "compersion" if you were happy about that. Nor would you really say that about a friend.
Is that accurate to your understanding? Do you think the definition of "compersion" extends beyond just a partner? Is it more for people you have some romantic connection with? What's your understanding of the word?
Note: I am not demanding people share my definition or saying this is how it should be defined. As these are new words and they are co-created in community, I'm reaching out to understand how other people see the use of this word, especially since I am wanting to make sure I am correct in how I define it within my writing.
Compersion is absolutely based in romantic or sexual love. If it were something else, we wouldn’t use that word to use to identify that concept. I’ve also seen no evidence contradicting that it came out of the polyamorous community during the 1990s.
Some people disagree on this in good faith. Others doing so are engaging in gaslighting.
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